Their favorite pastime (but not mine)

Early yesterday morning my Jacksonville manager pulled together myself and two of my teammates for an impromptu meeting. Well. Early morning cross-country impromptu meetings are not for good news. Sure enough. It was time for the favorite pastime of large organizations: a reorg.

My Jacksonville manager that I had been nicely building a relationship with was now my ex-manager. Our small reporting team of three people would now be reporting to Charlotte, to someone none of us knew or had spoken to before. But that was par for the course.

Perhaps I'm a curse: before I arrived my Jacksonville manager had overseen this management reporting function for more than 2 1/2 years, a bastion of stability these days. I'm there three weeks and she's off to a new function. My new manager will be my 3rd manager in the last 30 days!

And no small irony - he's from India. At least he's a bank employee and not part of the outsourcing legions. He's experienced with managing onshore/offshore outsourcers however; he had seven of them in his prior team.

Still, his whole team has been moved under another manager as part of this reorganization. So us three are all that's standing between him and being an ex-manager (or worse). At least there's some disincentives to getting rid of us for now.

No one likes this type of change, least of all me. But as one of my colleagues put it: at least our names are still on the organization chart.

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